Preface

Oracle TopLink delivers a proven standards-based enterprise Java solution for all of your relational and XML persistence needs based on high performance and scalability, developer productivity, and flexibility in architecture and design.

Audience

A variety of engineers use Oracle TopLink. Users of Oracle TopLink are expected to be proficient in the use of technologies and services related to Oracle TopLink (for example, JPA). This document does not include details about related common tasks, but focuses on Oracle TopLink functionality.

Application Developers--Users who want to develop applications using any of the following technologies for persistence services:

Developers should be familiar with the concepts and programming practices of Java SE and Java EE.

Developers using TopLink JPA should be familiar with the concepts and programming practices of JPA 2.0, as specified in the Java Persistence Architecture 2.0 specification at http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=317.